100K Subscribers On YouTube In Just 4 Months With Rachel Allen
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Dusty Porter
4.7 • 551 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dusty Porter interviews Rachel Allen, a middle school band teacher who transitioned from TikTok to YouTube, sharing her journey of content creation, community building, and the challenges of engaging with students and audiences online. Rachel discusses her rapid growth on TikTok, the importance of consistency in content creation, and her strategies for repurposing content across platforms. She also reflects on the impact of her work on her students and the music education community, as well as her future aspirations as a creator.
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About Rachel:
Rachel Allen is in her 20th year as a public school teacher, spending the majority of her career specializing in teaching middle school band. She started creating band content on in 2022 and has grown to almost 200K followers on Tiktok. In the fall of 2024, she started her YouTube channel specializing in short form content and has grown her subscriber count to just over 100K in just 4 months.
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| 0:00.0 | With the YouTube thing, I wish I would have known how hard it was going to be to dive into long-form content. |
| 0:09.6 | Because I feel like I can be funny and entertaining and storytelling in one minute. |
| 0:16.7 | I got it. |
| 0:17.8 | Like, I've mastered that. |
| 0:19.1 | One minute. |
| 0:19.6 | Boom. |
| 0:20.6 | Got you. But to make it longer, that's a lot. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome back to another episode of the YouTube creators of podcast. Dusty here as always. |
| 0:32.0 | And today, I'm just going to tell you really quickly. We're brought to you by the fine folks over at TubeBuddy. |
| 0:36.1 | If you're looking for a YouTube coach, I believe I can be the perfect person for you. We also have a place called Creator Communities over on our Discord server for five bucks. You get access to that community. Plus, you get access to the Mastermind calls. The February Mastermind Call is happening on the 26th, so go ahead and lock in your spot now to be a part |
| 0:54.5 | of that. We really appreciate you guys doing that, supporting the show, and you're going to get |
| 0:58.7 | tenfold what you put into it. It's a great community over there with some wonderful people. |
| 1:03.6 | I really love what this show is becoming. I love talking with creators every week. So let's go |
| 1:07.8 | ahead and jump into this week's conversation. Hello everyone and welcome to |
| 1:12.1 | this week's conversation on the podcast. I'm joined today by Rachel Allen, who is in her 20th year |
| 1:18.3 | as a public school teacher, spending the majority of that doing middle school band. She started |
| 1:25.0 | creating band content in 2022 and has grown to almost 200,000 followers over |
| 1:31.2 | on TikTok. And then in the fall of 2024, last year as we're recording this, she decided to take |
| 1:37.2 | the jump into YouTube. And within four months, she has 100,000 plus subscribers, millions of views |
| 1:43.5 | sometimes per day, and a great community over there. |
| 1:47.2 | Rachel, how are you doing today? |
| 1:48.8 | I'm doing great, Dusty. Thanks for having me. |
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